Hello dear forum,
Long time no see. I was wondering something. I noticed some activity in my old modding forum and was asked if a continuation was possible. So I checked my BG2. I have on several occassions been succesful in porting the whole game from one computer to another without the need to reinstall, including the mods which would cause those lovely string failures.
Unfortunately with the new windows 7 this is not the case.
What is the best way to go you guys think? Is there a way to let the game still run without installing everything again?
Or is it perhaps possible to install only the basic game. Than override with the full game I have and than play it all again as new?
Does anyone have any experience in this. I am aware of the multi-install tool (have to redownload it I think - I can not locate it in my archives) but have never used it, can that be of aid?
Thanks for any help in advance,
An oldtimer trying to get back on the bike 
In Windows 7, you should not install to Program Files directories. I don't know if you did this? Anyway, have you tried to simply copy the whole
BG2 installation to a new location? And then perhaps change the paths in baldur.ini to that new location?
Alternatively, you could also install
BG2 and
ToB, let's say to D:\
bg2\ (I use that directory), and then apply the official patch. Then rename that installation directory to something else (let's say d:\
BG2-vanilla). And now copy or rename your current installation (the one you have modded) to d:\
BG2. That way, the registry entries point to that location, and everything should work fine.
I always keep a vanilla version that way as a backup (well, actually I set all the settings like Debug mode etc so I don't have to do that again), since it's much faster to rename a couple of directories than uninstalling and installing the game(s) from scratch. If I make errors when installing mods, or if the mods conflict in a way that the installation is "broken", I can always revert to that vanilla-version and delete the modded version. Of course, this can take a lot of disk space. But in the end, once you are done with installing mods, you can always remove those backup installations if necessary.
I installed Easytutu and a lot of mods, and without making some backups every once in a while, I would have wasted a lot of time, since I made some errors.